[HECnet] DECnet Phase IV through Linux GRE Tunnel?

[Supratim Sanyal]

Hi Mark,

 > Since I want to keep my local DECnet traffic local, my current goal 
is to set up a VAX/OpenVMS simulation under SIMH to act as a DECnet area 
router (and provide other services to my real VAXen, too).

My approach was to compile SIMH with VDE support, and then use VDE as 
the primary DECnet-only switch connecting nine DECnet nodes in my 
basement in Washington, DC to a 10th node (CLOUDY) on a VPS in 
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. It works great, VDE basically provides 
ethernet ports on the same switch no matter where the ports 
geographically are; the virtual ethernet switch extends over SSL, hence 
it is pretty secure too.

If the host machine of MIM had VDE installed and shared the public key 
with us, we could, in theory, connect all our simulated DECnet nodes to 
MIM:: without using Multinet or Johnny's bridge etc.

I am sure you are aware of VDE, but still, here is the link: 
http://vde.sourceforge.net/

Best,

Supratim

On 1/6/2018 17:30, Mark J. Blair wrote:
> Since I want to keep my local DECnet traffic local, my current goal is to set up a VAX/OpenVMS simulation under SIMH to act as a DECnet area router (and provide other services to my real VAXen, too).